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Ford's future bright as workers shift into a new gear

We've been reading about this for years – the doom and gloom swallowing up Australia's car manufacturing industry.

There's been endless footage of assembly line workers tearfully lamenting the collapse of the only profession many of them have known, and all of the political debates about whether we should or should not have saved the car industry.

Well, it's all over now. The last Holden Commodore rolled off the Adelaide production line today, all shiny and red in its Australian-made glory.

But it's not going into the garage of a lucky family out in suburbia but into a museum where one day school children will be told of the almost one-hundred year period when cars were built in Australia, and when two rival brands Ford and Holden were woven in to the fabric of the Australian identity.

Suzanne McConchie has moved into a new role with Ford.Australia's Ford employees are now more focused on design.

These are sad and changing times, especially for all of the hard-working people who sweated it out on the production line, carefully painting and assembling these cars.

It was very proud work undertaken by many thousands of people who really felt they were part of a brand and a family.

While the car manufacturing industry was collapsing we heard over and over that these companies would try to 're-skill' their workers and find them other jobs.

It was a response you'd expect from some very big brands in damage control, but as our story shows tonight it has actually happened.

Car manufacturing has died in Australia.

Ford managed to re-skill some of the work force it had to lay off, and the personal stories behind many of those workers are touching.

There's Suzanne McConchie, who's presence on the Ford production line is one chapter in a long standing family tradition – her grandfather, father, husband and brother-in-law all worked there too, and she tells us she expects her young son will end up at Ford one day.

But as we well know, he won't be in manufacturing – those jobs just don't exist anymore in this country.

When the lights went out on the factory floor Suzanne used her university qualifications to transfer to Ford's design department and luckily her husband was able to do the same.

They now sit about two metres apart at the company's Broadmeadows plant, their hands flitting over keyboards rather than car parts.

And we also spoke to Rohan Egglestone, who also transferred from the manufacturing arm of Ford.

While he used to arrive home at night covered in paint and smelling of fumes, he says he doesn't mind his new found identity swanning around in a suit.

He also says his many years of experience in manufacturing have armed him with the hands-on knowledge and experience that many of the younger generation will never have, so ironically, it's the specific skill of workers that Ford laid off that they will now have to try to cultivate in next-generation employees.

Ford's CEO Graeme Whickman is blunt with me when I ask if there's a chance Ford will ever manufacture another car in Australia – it's a flat-out no. But he does pump up his company's tyres by promising they have a strong future here in design and engineering.

From our visit to Ford it's obvious the strength of this brand is beholden to its past, no pun intended.

And as our story will show, Ford is still a driving force in the Australian car industry, it just appears to have shifted into a different gear.